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| Fate Of CA Prisons Unknown |
| By thecrimereport.org |
| Published: 01/10/2011 |
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As a Supreme Court ruling looms this year, The Crime Report explores the choices facing one of the country’s largest and most troubled corrections systems, in an exclusive interview with Matthew Cate, Secretary of California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. For the past decade, California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has been operating in crisis mode. In 2004, a blue-ribbon commission convened by then- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger accused the CDCR of operating “dysfunctional” prison and parole systems characterized by “out-of-control costs;” by inmates who are “failing [to receive] mandated health care and other services;” and by corrections officials who lack “the integrity to stand up to political pressure.” The catalogue of defects seemed endless. “The recidivism rate [of 67 percent],” the report noted, “exceeds that of any other state.” Wardens were running their prisons as if they were independent ”feudal barons;” the “employee disciplinary system is failing to punish wrongdoers;” and union contracts were “encouraging a code of silence’’ among prison guards.” The reasons for California’s prison crisis, according to the commission, “were complex, yet simple: too much political interference, too much union control, and too little management courage, accountability and transparency.” Read More. |
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